January 11, 2007

Well, it’s seems there’s no way around the double html entity escaping in WordPress MU with Markdown Extra, which makes posting any kind of code containing HTML entities a nightmare.

I’m looking for a solution to get around this weird behaviour, but I’m stumped as to just what to do. In the meantime, I’ll be posting PHP code using the [?php ?] tags to get around the dissapearing markup problem, but object-related stuff (like ->) are still likely to show up as literal html codes.

One way I was thinking of circumventing this problem is to have my code hosted elsewhere, then display it using CodePress. Although it’s primarily a code editor, it might get around some of the shortcomings and provide code highlighting for code examples.